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Yearly Archives: 2018

573 people detained to date over critical stance on Afrin offensive

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has announced that 449 people have been detained on terror charges due to their posts on social media critical of a...

Report: Authorities censor Islam Encyclopedia over alleged Gülen influence

The Islam Encyclopedia of the Religious Affairs Foundation (TDV), which is affiliated with Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), arguably one of the world’s...

ErdoÄŸan overlooks challenges to Turkish military capability

Abdullah Bozkurt The anti-Western euphoria in the current Turkish government, which has gone well beyond posturing and definitely moved into a new phase with actual...

HRW report: Turkish border guards shooting at, blocking fleeing Syrians

Turkish guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning Syrian asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, the New...

Kılıçdaroğlu wins re-election as CHP chairman

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was re-elected leader of the party on Saturday with 790 votes at the...

7 Turkish soldiers killed in deadliest day of Afrin operation

The Turkish military announced on Saturday that seven Turkish soldiers were killed in one day in the Afrin region of Syria. According to the statement,...

Physicist retained sanity in Turkish prison by writing research papers

Ali Kaya, a theoretical physicist and professor at Turkey’s Boğaziçi University, has said he kept his sanity during 440 days of pretrial detention by...

Report: 572 lawyers in Turkey arrested, 80 convicted since failed coup

Five hundred seventy-two lawyers in Turkey have been arrested, 80 of whom have been convicted and sentenced to between four and 14 years in...

13 detained in Samsun over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Saturday detained 13 people in the Salıpazarı district of Samsun province over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run...

Police detain İz Gazete editor-in-chief for criticism of Turkey’s Afrin operation

Ãœmit Kartal, editor-in-chief of the Ä°zmir-based Ä°z Gazete, has been detained on accusations of disseminating the propaganda of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD)...

ErdoÄŸan says Turkish military getting closer to city of Afrin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan on Saturday said Turkish troops are getting closer to the Syrian city of Afrin, the state-run Anadolu news agency...

Trustee appointed to anti-government Furkan Foundation

An Adana court on Friday appointed a trustee to the Furkan Foundation, whose 25 members including President Alparslan Kuytul, leader of a religious group...

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